Leeds GovJam

HannahR

28th Oct 2019

Leeds GovJam 2019 has happened, and what a jam! With
some 50 participants plus an enthusiastic team of volunteers, ODI was buzzing.

Jammers went through the standard phases of the GovJam
experience – complete bewilderment on learning the theme, generation of
mountains of post-it note ideas and concepts, problem definition, user
research, abandonment of the first idea, refinement, solution ideation,
prototyping and show not tell. Wowzer!

Twinjamming happened with Blackpool
and London GovJams. After a shaky start trying to do this as a big group, we
reconsidered options and the idea of having 121 twinjams with a rep from each a
group and an expert from each location (Si Wilson from Leeds and Martin Jordan
from London) proved a complete success. This approach is definitely some
important learning for future twinjams.

Teams were really engaged and
proactive in approaching the volunteers for advice, guidance and to test out
their ideas. As a set of volunteers we were really pleased with this and happy
to work with the volunteers to help them develop their ideas and prototypes.

Collaboration went well, it seemed everyone had an opportunity to get involved